MOON KNIGHT

Marc Spector has died more times than most heroes, but the franchise’s most dedicated ghost is his own brother. Serving as mercenaries in Italy, Randall Spector murdered Marc’s girlfriend Lisa Maloney; Marc answered with a grenade and left him for dead. Randall survived. Years later, in the pages of Hulk! Magazine (1979), a killer called the Hatchet-Man began murdering nurses across Manhattan — and every sign said the Hatchet-Man was Randall. Moon Knight fought him to a rooftop end: the killer died impaled on a tree branch, and Marc buried his brother a second time.

Except the corpse was a stranger. The “Blood Brothers” saga (Marc Spector: Moon Knight #35–38, 1992) revealed that the dead Hatchet-Man was an impostor — a man Randall and the CIA handler Sandahl Swarn, alias Nepthys, had captured, brainwashed with stolen Operation: Cobra conditioning technology, and surgically rebuilt into Randall’s double. The real Randall had faked the whole production and watched his own funeral from the shadows.

His grudge had scripture behind it: a parchment from Khonshu’s tomb promised that one of the god’s avatars would gain power by slaying the other — and Randall intended to collect. Enhanced by Nepthys’s Cult of Khonshu, he became the Shadow Knight, Moon Knight’s dark mirror, and returned once more in Shadowland: Moon Knight (2010), where Marc finally killed him in New Orleans with a Sapphire Crescent. In the Spector family, even that was a pause, not an ending.